News & Events

The library will be closed on Monday, September 6th for the Labor Day holiday. Regular hours resume at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the 7th.

Plan now to attend the upcoming film series, Faces of Addiction. The first film, "Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room" will be facilitated by Deane Tucker and Richard Patterson. The evening features a light meal as well as discussion. This event will be held on Wednesday, September 15 at 6 p.m. and is funded by the We the People Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information contact the library at 334-3490.

A new thriller is "Midnight Angels" by Lorenzo Carcaterra. Professor Richard Dylan Edwards is a highly regarded Michelangelo expert. He is also the leader of the secretive Vittoria Society that recovers stolen art treasures to return them to their rightful owner. His group is seeking three missing Michelangelo statues known as the Midnight Angels, which most art historians believe never existed beyond legend. When this group finds the statutes they found themselves targets of the deadly ruthless Immortals who have no remorse in killing... sure to be a page-turner!

Other new fiction books include "Five Days Apart" by Chris Binchy, "Search" by Nora Roberts, "The Whisper" by Carla Neggers, "The Island" by Elin Hilderbrand, "Fortune Harbor" by Emile Richards and "Song of the Dragon" by Tracy Hickman. New YA books include "Poser" by Sue Wyshynski, "Keys to the Repository" by Melissa de la Cruz and "Blindsided" by Priscilla Cummings.

New on the non-fiction shelf are "The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to American Women of the West" by Holly George-Warren, "Psychic: My Life in Two Worlds" by Sylvia Browne and "Reiki for Life" by Penelope Quest.

The Lennea Lewis Slagle Children's Library has added these junior books: "Cryptid Hunters" by Roland Smith and "Secrets, Lies and Algebra" by Wendy Lichtman. New pictures books are "Fall at Summit Ridge Farm: Strawberry and Denver" and "Winter at Summit Ridge Farm: Strawberry and Denver" by Jan Prenoveau.

"Grandparents Are Special" is the theme for Storyhour on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. Storyhour is held each Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. for children age three until they enter first grade.